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By David Wilfong, NDG Contributing Writer The residents of District 4 will now have representation on the Dallas City Council again, and with a familiar face. Carolyn King Arnold won her runoff against Keyaira D. Saunders on Tuesday to retake her old seat at the horseshoe. “I was very committed to bringing to the table the […]

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Gig Wage, a payments platform specializing in independent contractors, announced this week it has closed the first $1 million of a $2 million seed round. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, which kicked off its seventh bus tour in Dallas last May, has invested in Gig Wage. Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund is a $150 […]

Former First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House to welcome students and help kick off the first annual Young Women’s Leadership Conference: Leadership Lessons Learned through the Arts. The program, produced by the nonprofit AT&T Performing Arts Center, included 150 young women from nine North Texas high schools and organizations […]

By Dallas ISD Trustee Joyce Foreman, District 6 Jihan Mitchell, a visual arts teacher at T. L. Marsalis Elementary, brims with pride at this year’s student-led photography exhibit at the Polk-Wisdom branch library. Students were responsible for capturing an aspect of their community in a photo, then their teacher had the photos professionally developed for […]

The 2018 Community Impact Awards Luncheon was held on Nov. 8 at the Thanksgiving Square, Tower Club, in Dallas. Hosted by the Community Council of Greater Dallas, the theme for this year’s event was A Tale of Two Cities: Reshaping the Possibilities. Through their efforts, they are trying to change the way nonprofits work together. […]

The American Diabetes Association estimates over 30 million Americans are affected by diabetes and is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. In the African American population, studies show they are disproportionately affected by diabetes in comparison to the general population. The rates of diagnosed diabetes among African Americans is 12.7 percentage […]